If you write it, they will come

HENDERSON – Someone actually wrote a paper-back book on the art of fighting in the National Hockey League.
Whoever the author was explained the rules, the instigator penalties. He found a good many of the players whose incessant desire to brawl made the NHL more of a fringe sport than it used to be and quoted them about the state of fighting and what they thought of the rules to cut down on some of that stuff.
Needless to say, it didn't make it into the shopping cart.
Hockey is a very graceful sport when played properly. When the league opened up play a few years ago, it was the best thing they've done in eons.
No one would dare cut out the fighting. It's what sells. But it still takes away from a certain amount of skill required to play the game.